I just found out about AppImageLauncher, a package handler for AppImages. It organizes them, creates desktop files for you and handles updates and removal.

Integrate AppImages to your application launcher with one click, and manage, update and remove them from there. Double-click AppImages to open them, without having to make them executable first.

Much better than having to create all the desktop files myself, and having to figure out what to put in them for it to work correctly (I’m looking at you, qBittorrent and magnet links).

  • sputge@lemmy.world
    201·
    1 year ago

    AppImageLauncher caused me problems in the past, similar to in this post.

    So I switched to appimaged and have never looked back.

    An implementation of AppImage tools written in Go by the inventor of the AppImage format.

    After uninstalling AppImageLauncher, I had to make sure that ~/.config/systemd/user/default.target.wants/appimagelauncherd.service was also removed!

    BTW the last release of AppImageLauncher is from 2020!

    • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      Good looking out. I installed this and verified it’s working, but does this automatically start at start up? I can’t seem to get systemctl enable to work on it.

      • sputge@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        According to the uninstall instructions here: https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage/blob/master/src/appimaged/README.md#initial-setup

        appimaged should create the everything itself in order for auto start to work after launching it once via ~/Applications/appimaged-*.AppImage

        e.g. systemctl --user status appimaged.service says that the service is enabled for me.

        (Maybe you were missing the --user flag?)

        I would follow the installation instructions and if that does not work, the uninstall instructions in reverse to create the service yourself (probably with systemctl --user enable --now appimaged.service)